Linked by Thom Holwerda on Mon 13th Aug 2007 17:57 UTC
"A good programming language is far more than a simple collection of features. My ideal is to provide a set of facilities that smoothly work together to support design and programming styles of a generality beyond my imagination. Here, I briefly outline rules of thumb (guidelines, principles) that are being applied in the design of C++0x. Then, I present the state of the standards process (we are aiming for C++09) and give examples of a few of the proposals such as concepts, generalized initialization, being considered in the ISO C++ standards committee. Since there are far more proposals than could be presented in an hour, I'll take questions." Dr. Bjarne Stroustrup is the original designer and implementer of the C++ Programming Language.
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Placing the closing bracket of your for loop is prone to error, and if you leave it out completely, I imagine the resulting compiler error being non-trivial to track down. Coverity is useful for verifying arbitrary locking conventions.
Why make the bounds-checked array the default array? Because you very rarely want to reference outside the bounds of an array, and you very rarely care enough about the minimal overhead to warrant the risk of bugs and vulnerabilities. For those times where you want to linearly traverse a 2D array or where you need to squeeze everything out of that inner loop, you can opt for the simple array.